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    It is not the case that There must be an eternal intelligence realized in the related facts of the world that partially reproduces itself in individual human minds.

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    • 1.Hume's bundle theory shows that 'order' is a pattern projected by minds onto experience, not an independently existing feature requiring a grounding intelligence.
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    • 2.Darwin's mechanism of natural selection produces the appearance of intelligent design through blind variation and differential survival, without invoking any directing mind.
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    • 3.The inference from 'order exceeds individual constitution' to 'a greater mind constitutes it' commits the composition fallacy: collective emergence need not entail a collective constituting subject.
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    • 1.Kant's Critique of Pure Reason establishes that the categories organizing experience are contributed by the finite human mind itself, not received from an external intelligence.
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    • 2.If the structuring conditions of experience are transcendental features of human cognition, positing an eternal intelligence to explain shared cognitive order is an explanatorily redundant move beyond what the phenomena require.
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    • 1.The order of which any individual human being is aware extends beyond what could plausibly be constituted by that individual alone.
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    • 2.The order of which we are each aware must therefore be constituted by a mind or intelligence greater than that of any individual human being.
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